June 2008
45 posts
OH MY GOD IT'S THE POOP SIGN →
After we move, I’m totally getting one of these for the bathroom. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: poop, funny
Phusion Passenger 2.0.1 (final) released →
Passenger is awesome. I can pump at least 10x the traffic through it that I can with almost anything else I’ve tried. It’s a cinch to configure and bounce things in, and it’s all running…
$ command line ruby cheat sheets →
Cool! I love cheat sheets! A cool little gem that’s sort of an extensible version of ‘man’ written in Ruby. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ruby, …
46 days to Beijing and the Olympic Games | CMIS... →
Someone used one of my Beijing photos in a blog post, and included proper attribution - hurray for Creative Commons! Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: …
Machine Fecundity →
Short, sweet and made my head asplode. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: consumerism, fecundity, mindsplode
Reputation Parent - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library →
Interesting set of reputation structures and models of participation for social sites. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toread, whuffie, …
Merb Wiki | Phusion Passenger →
Good instructions for setting up Merb to work with Phusion Passenger. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: merb, phusionpassenger
Ruby on Rails 2.1 What’s New - Second Edition →
A free pdf profiling all the new stuff in Rails 2.1. In English or Portugese! Nice! Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: rubyonrails, rails21, book
Fuzed and EC2 →
Interesting experiment to see how fuzed worked on an Amazon EC2 instance. Could be very interesting to take this a step farther and see how it works across several instances with one locally…
Assembling Pages Last: Edge Caching, ESI and Rails →
I’m sad I missed this one at RailsConf, and more than a little disturbed that this is the first time I’m hearing about ESI. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks …
Ya Talkin' Gibberish — err.the_blog →
Best Rails plugin ever for doing localization. It’s super-simple and doesn’t require a ton of extra work. I love it the most. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks …
Social Media & Love For Bright Shiny Objects :... →
Simple, but a list of the sites Frank Gruber uses every week. I need to do this myself… Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: blogging, video, …
Unixbench Roundup for EC2, Joyent, and my Brand... →
Interested test of several different virtualization options (2 different ec2 instances, 1 joyent accelerator and an MBP as a control). Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give…
How to build ImageMagick and install RMagick with... →
Way easier than any of the other tutorials I’ve followed. Remember, kids, with rmagick, you have to collect your own garbage. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks …
MediaPlug →
Something to check out later and see if it’s something I’d use. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: video-conversion, rubyonrails, api, …
ThoughtBlog: More on XMPP and Clustering - 2/20 |... →
Part two of a three part series on Satisfaction’s use of XMPP for scaling Rails. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: xmpp, rubyonrails, toread
ThoughtBlog: More on XMPP Apps. ... →
The last in a three part series on Satisfaction’s use of XMPP and Rails to scale up their service. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: xmpp, …
ThoughtBlog: On XMPP and building distributed... →
The first of three in a series on Satisfaction’s use of XMPP for scale. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: xmpp, rubyonrails
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Base Install →
An AMI image for ec2 that comes highly recommended. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: ec2, ami, virtualization
Ruby Enterprise Edition →
Bold claims and really nice guys. I met them at RailsConf and they seem to know what they’re doing. This is definitely worth checking out. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | …
"You have to treat your employees like customers"... →
A great overview of how to keep employees happy AND your company profitable - by treating your employees like real people. Awesome. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give…
Scenius →
A fantastic writeup and expression of what Steven Berlin Johnson calls “emergence”. A must-read. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: scenius, …
Scott Kveton · I’m for the Open Web →
Scott Kveton rips Chris Saad a new one, and rightly so. We all sent Chris the same message at Social Graph Foo Camp, he’s had enough time to shape up but instead things have become…
Versions - Mac Subversion Client →
Versions, the first easy to use Mac OS X Subversion client Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: subversion, osx
That Vampire Poem Saved My Life →
I sat behind her in Chemistry. I had just moved, and was none to happy to be there. She was quiet, with large round glasses, big blue eyes. when she was thinking about something, she twirled her…
Scaling Rails - RailsConf 2008 on Vimeo →
Someone took a video of the panel I was on at RailsConf: Scaling Rails. It was a lot of fun. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: rubyonrails, scale,
Advanced Active Record Techniques: Best Practice... →
Advanced Active Record Techniques: Best Practice Refactoring, one of my favorite talks at RailsConf. It had some really good examples of refactoring working code making it simpler and more…
RailsConf 2008 Presentation - Assembling Pages... →
I missed this one, but was intrigued by the topic. Must… read… slides… later… Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toread, rubyonrails, …